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https://www.rei.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/06/REI-co-op-journal-eileen-guo.jpg?fit=1252%2C125212521252Eileen is a freelance writer and obsessed climber. Based, in theory, in New York City, she much prefers the high deserts of the American Southwest and the newly developed routes of Western China to the urban jungle. Her writing focuses on how our connections to place and culture shape beliefs, identity, and behavior in the […]